Sorting the Great British Firewall

JMH · May 17, 2012

The U.K. is holding a fiery debate over the free and open Internet and how to protect kids from the perils of online porn. The drama-filled saga has enough cartoonish details and self-serving characters in it to fill out an entire Guy Ritchie film -- sadly, sans the comic relief. Or even cute little dogs.

Even though content filters are available, religious organizations and conservatives think the government needs to force ISPs into default filtering. On this bandwagon, loud and proud, are tabloids such as the Sun and Daily Mail.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57435112-93/sorting-the-great-british-firewall/

satrow · May 17, 2012

... UK citizens.

Let me fix that:

... UK subjects.

No successful revolution here - yet.

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Sorting the Great British Firewall

JMH

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